Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine
by mempko on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:43AM
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Ok, but A million dead Iraqis. Afghanistan was childs play for the US. In fact, US sanctions against Iraq starved 500,000 children.
Both governments, Russia and US, are war machines. As far as I'm aware, not a single large US software company left the US because of those wars.
JetBrains is amazing by any standard.
I personally welcome criticism against USA as long as it isn't based on hate of USA but on general ideas. Very simplified: one should be ready to be proportionally critical to everyone else.
For a practical example: I do not find it useful to listen to people who criticize USA (43000 dead civilians in Afghanistan in 20 years) while being utterly silent on Soviet Russia (somewhere between 500 000 and 2 500 000 dead in 10 years, sometimes in ways that make drone strikes look very civil).
Or, if you say Soviet Russia is long ago (it isn't, many of us grew up in its shadows), it seems Russia has already killed more civilians in Ukraine than US killed civilians in Afghanistan. This of course comes on top of what they did and still do in Syria etc.